Education: 2,000,000 Out There

Helen Dickerson Wise looked out the kitchen window of her 100-year-old
white clapboard farmhouse one day last week and mulled over the riches
that the summer would bring. "I helped my son Dirk plant 755 tomato
plants a month ago," she remarked, "and found muscles that I haven't
felt in years. By now the corn is about ready; we'll be having the
first ears next week. We won't have any strawberries this year, but Til
can and jam the peaches from our own trees in the early fall." Mrs.
Wise also was keeping an eye on 30 head of polled beef...